Sonam Kapoor’s Befitting Reply To Trolls Who Assumed She Doesn’t Know The National Anthem

These days people find opportunities to troll celebrities just to gain the limelight. This time Sonam Kapoor fell prey to Twitter trolls when she referred to a line from the national anthem in an article she wrote for a leading English daily.

The article was, however, a part of a campaign ‘Let’s Talk About Trolls’ that is trying to raise awareness on online abuse and bullying. In the article, she gave an example of our national anthem and wrote,

I love my country but for some of you — and you’re the bigots, not me — I become ‘anti-national’ only because I ask questions or choose to be critical. Listen to the national anthem…recall the line you heard as kids, ‘Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Issai…

Twitterati were too quick to jump to a conclusion. They assumed that the actress doesn’t know the National Anthem of India. Many users started juxtaposing pictures of her quote and the lyrics of the national anthem to remind the actor that the words ‘Hindu, Muslim and Sikh’ do not appear in the song.

Soon tweets started flooding in and Tweeple mercilessly mocked the ‘Neerja’ actress.

The sad reality of the time we are living in is that people believe in reacting and not responding. People saw Sonam Kapoor’s article with her liberal views and just attacked her without even noticing the FULLSTOP after the line, “Listen to the national anthem one more time.”

However, there were some who stood for Sonam Kapoor and quoted the full lyrics of the Tagore song of which only the first verse is the National Anthem.